Quotes of: Solitary Keyword

Bruce Wayne: I thought the point of solitary confinement was the solitary part. Henri Ducard: These men have mistaken you for a criminal, Mr. Wayne...

Batman Begins

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

Emile M. Cioran

What a blessing it is to love books.

The Solitary Summer

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

Karl Kraus

A solitary ox shits more than a hundred swallows.

Spanish

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Tennessee Williams

The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.

Will Self

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

Willa Cather

...So you can put that in your pipe and smoke it Mr. Busybody Holmes.

The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist

Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.

Reveries of the Solitary Walker

We are not on this planet to ask forgiveness of our deities

Living Wicca: A Further Guide for the Solitary Practitioner

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Shadows on the Rock

Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.

The Solitary Summer

I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow.

The Solitary Summer

I'm better suited to be a director, I think. I see myself as the general author. I hate the word 'auteur,' because it sounds so solitary when filmmaking is anything but solitary.

Cary Fukunaga

What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.

The Solitary Summer

She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from others, even those who would be her friends.

Tigana

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

M. Scott Peck

Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.

Jane Austen

I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.

Reveries of the Solitary Walker